If you look at the litany of protocols for the
BITNET of Things today, there's ZigBee, Lon Works, X.10, 802.15.4.
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The two major computer networks that emerged in the early 1980s, ARPAnet and
BITNET, were accessible only to a select few in the early years when resources were scarce and expensive.
If one computer along the store-and-forward chain lacks the resources to handle a 300 Kbyte file (which is the official limit for
BITNET files |LaQuey 1990, p.
As noted earlier, the Handicap Digest was only distributed on
BITNET. However, in the last year there have been other means of accessing the Digest established.
In a broader sense non-TCP/IP networks such as
BITNET, which have developed special gateway connections to allow for the exchange of information, might also be said to be part of the Internet.
The second was implementation of an e-mail network based on
BITNET. Each professor would have direct microcomputer access to all others on the network.
For instance, a researcher using NSFNET, ARPANET and
BITNET, which links many universities, must remember at least three different personal codes and password -- and the appropriate "address" for a person receiving a message at the other end.